Music

Los Angeles: Six Fold Amen

Participant Amy Pringle leads a Six Fold Amen at Music that Makes Community: Los Angeles, held in 2008. Read more about Los Angeles: Six Fold Amen

Los Angeles: Hosanna

Participant Holly Phares leads Hosanna at Music that Makes Community: Los Angeles, held in 2008. Read more about Los Angeles: Hosanna

Los Angeles: When I Pour Out My Spirit

Presenter Eric Law leads "When I Pour Out My Spirit" at Music that Makes Community: Los Angeles, held in 2008. Read more about Los Angeles: When I Pour Out My Spirit

Los Angeles: Thembe, Thembe

Presenter Lester Mackenzie leads "Thembe, Thembe" at Music that Makes Community: Los Angeles, held in 2008. Read more about Los Angeles: Thembe, Thembe

Boston: Pakistani Chant

Presenter Scott Weidler leads a Pakistani Chant at Music that Makes Community: Boston, held in 2009. Read more about Boston: Pakistani Chant

Boston: In the Morning

Video from Music that Makes Community: Boston, of presenter Marilyn Haskel "Leading In the Morning", held in 2009. Read more about Boston: In the Morning

Boston: Dying You Destroyed Our Death

Presented Marilyn Haskel with MMC participants leads "Dying You Destroyed Our Death" at Music that Makes Community: Boston, held in 2009. Read more about Boston: Dying You Destroyed Our Death

Boston: Open My Heart

Presenter Ana Hernandez leads "Open My Heart" at Music that Makes Community: Boston, held in 2009. Read more about Boston: Open My Heart

A link to a Video produced by the Diocese of Atlanta

This video is excepts of the closing Eucharist for the Music that Makes Community held at St. Benedict's Episcopal Church in Smyrna, GA on March 11-13, 2010.

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I was folding laundry. My wife, international programs director of an NGO doing AIDS work in Africa, Ph.D. trained gerontologist, amateur actor, mother of three splendid grown children and stepmother to another splendid grown child, does her best to avoid using the dryer. Read more about You are love

What is God doing in this Music?

How does our music-making ultimately matter? Traditional, pre-literate ways of sharing music ask us to learn by mirroring, so making together music this way builds community, frees us for compassion, and unleashes our creativity. Here are some significant sources for this argument: Read more about What is God doing in this Music?

The Singing Neanderthals, The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body,

Mithen draws evidence from neurology, paleontology, cross-cultural studies in language development in infants, and archaeology to argue for the evolution of human language and community from our ancestors’ ability to make primordial melody and gesture. I suspect the title is not his. Despite the title, he’s not writing about Neanderthals. Mithen’s real subject is music’s importance to the formation of primal community. From the primal communication that makes possible primal human community and early human’s collaborating systematically for survival. Read more about The Singing Neanderthals, The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body,

The Age of Empathy, Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society

Frans De Waal is a primatologist. Like Mario Iacoboni, English is his second language and like Iacoboni, his ease and clarity writing it are enviable. The two books make an intriguing complementary pair. Iacoboni gives us a guided tour of the brain (ours and those other mammals). De Waal watches the behaviors a mirroring brain makes possible. Read more about The Age of Empathy, Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society

Mirroring People, the Science of Empathy and How We Connect With Others

Atlanta: Rejoice and Sing with Me

Recorded at the All Saints Company's Music that Makes Community: Atlanta, held in November 2009. The music is "Rejoice and sing with me" written by Michael Hahn led by Marilyn Haskel. Video by W. Tay Moss Read more about Atlanta: Rejoice and Sing with Me